Coping Strategies for Trauma

CHCMHS007
Knowledge Assessment
Learner
Section 1 – Personal Details
Full Name: Phone:
Workplace:
Section 2 – Qualification Details
Qualificatio
n Code:
CHC43315 Qualification
Title:
Certificate IV in Mental Health
Units Being Assessed:
Unit Code Unit Title Outcome
S or NS
CHCMHS007 Work effectively in trauma informed care
Learner Declaration
I, __________________________________ (Learner Name), state that the attached assessment is my own work. I have
kept a copy of this assessment for future records.
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Section 3 – Feedback
Learner Feedback
Time Spent
Reading/Researching:
Time Spent Completing
Assessment:
Additional
Comments:
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General Information
Resources to complete these units of competency may include
To establish overall competency for this unit you may utilise workplace resources such as the ones listed below.
You are not limited to, the following resources:
 Legislation
 Care Manual
 Aged Care Act
 Disability Act
 Mental Health Act
 Industry and organisation service standards
 Industry and organisation codes of practice/ethics
 Accreditation standards
 International and national charters
 Organisation policy and procedure
 Consumers/consumer/consumers/consumers
 Workplace documents
 Workplace
 Industry - web
Hints and Tips
 Attend all training sessions as this will assist with your knowledge and understanding of the unit
requirements.
 If you need assistance please contact your trainer/assessor and ask for it
Assessment Instructions
Assessment Process for the Learner
Recognition of Prior Skills (RPL)
If you feel you can demonstrate or have prior skills for this unit, it is recommended that you inform your assessor
and apply for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) for this.
Overall Assessment
As a learner you are required to demonstrate competency for each unit within your chosen qualification.
To achieve competency follow the steps below:
1. Knowledge Assessment – Written questions and Case Studies.
Additional Assessment
1. WHS and workplace practices will continue to be assessed throughout the course.
2. This assessment is completed holistically.
Conditions of Assessment
All work submitted must be your own work. Should you add content from other sources, please make sure this is
referenced in your assessment.
Assessment Process for the Assessor
Overall Assessment
Your learners are required to demonstrate competency for each unit within their chosen qualification.
Competency will need to be demonstrated through the following methods:
1. Knowledge Assessment – Written questions and Case Studies.
2. Completed assessor confirmation
Note: should the learner be required to re-submit or repeat the assessment, a new assessment (full or
partial) is to be provided to the learner with a new assessment cover sheet.
Wherever these boxes are located, the ATS assessor is to complete. S NS
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Part A – WrittenQuestions
1. Write a paragraph to define the term “Trauma”. S NS
It is considered as traumatic event which involves a particular experience or multiple experience which
completely devastate or
beat the person’s ability to cope and integrate the emotion and ideas related to the that experience.
2. Outline your understanding of complex trauma? S NS
It evaluates the both children’s exposure to several traumatic events, interpersonal nature and wide ranging for
the long term.
This generally severe as well as pervasive such as profound neglect, abuse, harassment and so on.
3. Explain how a person's sense of safety is affected as a result of the trauma that they
have experienced.
S NS
When a person experience any trauma related to an accident then they always have fear for that due to which
when they
realize any similar situation they get trauma attack because they not feel safe at specific situation.
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4. Referring to the principles below provide two (2) examples to explain how you would
provide care and supports to meet the principles of trauma informed care.
S NS
Principles Examples of care and supports
Trustworthiness 1. Properly interact with people for gaining their trust.
2. Provide respect and professional boundaries must be maintain.
Choice and Control 1. In this a person get clear message related to their role, responsibilities
and rights.
2. A person will assign team members under them so that they understand
their role by guiding them.
Empowerment 1. Involve individual in the decision making process as well as appraise
them.
2. They must also provided atmosphere where a person fell validate and
affirmed along with the every contract with the firm.
Language 1. Use common as well as easy language for interacting with one another at
the workplace.
2. Develop rule that every person use communion language which is
understand by everyone.
Safety 1. Ensure the common areas are safe and proper which welcome people.
2. Individual must provide privacy so that they conduct their work properly.
Collaboration 1. Individual must provide specific role in planning activities.
2. There must be proper involvement of individual in evaluating services.
Inclusiveness 1. Involve person in the decision making as well as update with all the
recent news and information.
2. Involve person in workshops and seminars.
Diversity 1. Firm moves past cultural stereotypes as well as biases.
2. Incorporate proper rule, policy, protocols and processes.
5. Describe four (4) things you could do to promote an environment of trust when you
are meeting a consumer for the first time.
S NS
1 Be on the time.
2 Enhance trust through the transparency, interpersonal boundaries, consistency and so on.
3 Try to provide clear and specific information about when, whom and where.
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4 Avoid catching or tricking the person.
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6. Outline the laws and issues relating to privacy for making a report under mandatory
reporting laws after a child discloses they are being abused by a parent.
S NS
There are several laws and issues related to the privacy for report under mandatory reporting laws after a child
disclosed that
they get abused by parent, the law related to that is child security and safety law as well as in order to make
privacy the office
which handle child’s care didn’t disclose any information.
You are working with a consumer Rita who has disclosed that they were sexually abused as a child. As a result of
this abuse Ritahas used alcohol and drugs to cope with and block out the abuse that has occurred. Rita admits that
she is now an addict and has resorted to prostitution as a means to support her drug habit.
7. Identify three (3) trauma informed care practices that could be introduced in this
situation to support Rita.
S NS
1 Ensure that Rita has access to the resources or reading material related to the trauma informed care.
2 Aware her about their rights so that she take her decision against abasement.
3 Show Rita success and failure as the learning opportunity so she get motivated to leave normal life.
8. Explain gender responsiveness in relation to trauma informed care. S NS
Gender responsiveness is important for the trauma informed care because men as well as women experienced
different types of
trauma and they react differently to it. This is so it is essential to have gender responsiveness at the trauma
care centre.
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